Pix Liquida

Pine-tar

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Tar and its constituents act on various mucous membranes.

Its skin symptoms most important. A great cough medicine. Bronchial irritation after influenza ( Kreosot; Kali bich ). Scaly eruptions. Much itching. Constant vomiting of blackish fluid, with pain in stomach . Alopecia ( Fluor ac ).

Chest

Pain at a spot about the third left costal cartilage where it joins the rib . Rales through the lungs, and muco-purulent sputum ; offensive odor and taste. Chronic bronchitis.

Skin

Cracked; itches intolerably ; bleeds on scratching. Eruptions on back of hands .

Relationship

Compare its constituents: Kreosol; Petrol; Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth; Carbolic acid .

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Pix Liquida across the other classic books

Pix Liquida appears in 5 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods. Authorities. Fulness and pain in the head, 2. Pain in the stomach, 2. Constant vomiting (after seven hours and a half), 1. Vomiting of a blackish fluid, 2. Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half), 1. Ardor urinæ (second day), 1…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CHEST, left”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Liquid Tar. (A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.) Tincture. Acne / Ardor urinæ / Bronchitis / Desquamation / Diarrhœa / Eczema / Enuresis / Eruptions / Hands, eruptions on / Phthisis / Psoriasis / Vomiting, black In old-school practice Tar is known as a "stimulant expectorant" in chronic…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Liquid tar. Introduced by Jeanes. Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odor and taste and accompanied by pain, referred to third costal cartilage (really in left bronchus) ; pain may or may not go through to back. θ Bronchial catarrh. θ Phthisis. Useful in third stage of phthisis. Pain at third left costal…”

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